what is this form of sp@m telling me?

[winterbadger]

I've noticed that several emails that have shown up in my sp@m nets are "headlined" as being from people I know.

In other words, the "name" linked with the sending address is a friend or relative, even though the underlying address is obviously not theirs.

So, it's not that the sp@mmer has hijacked their account so much as they've identified that someone with that name writes, or at least has written, to my address and so the sp@mmer is using that name as a cover to get me to read their emails.

Where would they get that information? From my friend's emails? From my email? Has something been compromised that needs to be fixed?

My brain is just too foggy to figure this one out just now.

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[gr-c17.livejournal.com]

Mom got an email with "my" name, and I've gotten one on the office account from a "vendor". So I quess whatever the spammers are using is a) remote, and b) universal.

Hanging is too good for em!